Israel announced its worst combat losses for more than a month on Wednesday after an ambush in the ruins of Gaza City, and faced growing diplomatic isolation as civilian deaths mounted and a humanitarian catastrophe worsened.

Intense fighting was under way both north and south Gaza, a day after the United Nations demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. U.S. President Joe Biden said Israel’s “indiscriminate” bombing of civilians was costing international support.

Warplanes again bombed the length of Gaza and aid officials said the arrival of winter rain worsened conditions for hundreds of thousands sleeping rough in makeshift tents. The vast majority of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have been made homeless.

Israel had global sympathy when it launched a campaign to annihilate the Hamas militant group that controls Gaza after fighters stormed across the border fence on Oct. 7, killing 1,200 Israelis, mostly civilians, and seizing 240 hostages.

But since then, Israel has besieged the enclave and laid much of it to waste. Gaza’s health ministry said on Wednesday at least 18,608 people have been killed and 50,594 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since Oct. 7. Many thousands more are feared lost in the rubble or beyond the reach of ambulances.

In Rafah, in Gaza’s south where hundreds of thousands of people have sought shelter, the bodies of a family killed in an overnight air strike were being laid out in the rain in bloodied white shrouds, including several small children. One, the size of a newborn, was wrapped in a pink blanket.

  • glimse@lemmy.world
    311·
    11 months ago

    Israel reported 10 of its soldiers killed in the past 24 hours, including a full colonel commanding a forward base and a lieutenant-colonel commanding a regiment. It was the worst one-day loss since 15 soldiers were killed on Oct. 31.

    Omg 10

  • casmael@startrek.website
    133·
    11 months ago

    Wow Reuters blocking my adblocker is not cool. Fuck all these corpos man I have no respect for that shit

          • Nommer@sh.itjust.works
            64·
            11 months ago

            Nowhere is it written that ads are required to lessen a user’s experience but here we are.

              • Nommer@sh.itjust.works
                33·
                11 months ago

                Where did I say that? Are you actually not old enough to remember non intrusive banner ads?

                • NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social
                  35·
                  11 months ago

                  I am older than the common era of the internet, like before 56k.

                  I remember them, I also remember never actually looking at them.

                  They just didn’t work.

              • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
                12·
                11 months ago

                If the marginal cost of reproducing a thing approaches zero, then obviously the appropriate price point is “free”. It costs almost nothing to serve a webpage, but if that page is filled with intrusive and potentially malicious adverts then the cost of viewing it is astronomical in comparison. You wouldnt go out in public naked, and nobody should be using the web without adblock.

                • cm0002@lemmy.world
                  41·
                  11 months ago

                  It costs almost nothing to serve a webpage,

                  Wut? To one person maybe, but once you’re scaling to delivering that same webpage to hundreds of thousands to millions that cost rises dramatically lmao do you even know how powerful a system needs to be to serve a million requests for the same webpage at the same time?

                  Even a text only webpage is going to need some good power behind it just to handle the protocol overhead and that’s not even covering the infrastructure costs

    • cm0002@lemmy.world
      6·
      11 months ago

      Reuters seems unable to detect my ad blocking, I’m using AdAway in root mode on Android and able to read the article without ads